07/12/2016  SEMI projects that the worldwide semiconductor equipment market will be flat this year and will rebound in 2017 according to the mid-year edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Forecast, released today at the SEMICON West exposition.

07/12/2016  On Monday, imec – the Leuven Belgium-based research consortium – hosted its annual imec Technology Forum (ITF) USA, a half-day conference at the Marriott Marquis.

07/12/2016  The near-term outlook for semiconductor manufacturing is challenging, with revenues down slightly but equipment spending up a bit, as reported by experts during the SEMI/Gartner Market Symposium held yesterday afternoon.

07/11/2016  Synopsys' Process Explorer and Raphael accurately simulate parasitic resistance of alternative metals and liner-barrier materials at the 7nm node and beyond.

07/11/2016  AppliedMicro's innovative silicon products enabled by TSMC's advanced technology.

07/11/2016  EV Group (EVG) today introduced the EVG50 automated metrology system.

07/11/2016  Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its next-generation e-beam inspection system is delivering the highest resolution and image quality at the fastest throughput to leading foundry, logic, DRAM and 3D NAND customers as they move to advanced nodes.

07/08/2016  3D-Micromac AG announced that its microDICE laser micromachining system has been adopted by a major industrial manufacturer for volume production of high-power diodes.

07/08/2016  Photoresist manufacturers had reason to smile as fiscal 2015 closed, with sales growing nicely to $1.37B, a 6.2% increase over 2014.

07/08/2016  Imec, a nanoelectronics research center, today announced the opening of imec Florida, a new entity focusing on photonics and high-speed electronics IC design based in Osceola, Florida.

07/08/2016  Weak global economy and poor DRAM market to drag down growth this year.

07/07/2016  Gigaphoton Inc. has announced success in achieving 250W light output at 4.0% conversion efficiency with a Laser-Produced Plasma (LPP) light source prototype for EUV scanners, which the company is currently engaged in developing.

07/07/2016  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Brian Beattie to the Company’s Board of Directors and Audit Committee.

07/07/2016  According to the latest market research report by Technavio, the semiconductor chip handler market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 4% until 2020.

07/07/2016  Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, and Nova Measuring Instruments announced today a joint program to develop innovative metrology methods to enable leading-edge process control solutions for multi e-beam and directed self-assembly (DSA) advanced lithography techniques.

07/05/2016  Voltage-controlled oscillator developed at UC Riverside could be used in thousands of applications from computers to wearable technologies.

07/05/2016  Sales increase 0.4 percent compared to April, decrease 7.7 percent year-to-year.

07/05/2016  Plasma-Therm, a supplier of wafer process technology solutions to specialty semiconductor and nanotechnology markets, has acquired Nano Etch Systems Inc. of California, a developer of ion beam etch (IBE) and ion beam deposition (IBD) systems.

07/05/2016  Assuring IoT security will require strategies to manage the entire value and supply chains.

07/01/2016  SUSS MicroTec, a supplier of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor industry and related markets, announced the launch of the MA/BA Gen4 series today.